Ellen and all, Ellen Rony wrote: > James Santagata wrote: > > >Careless-typer protection order: In a major blow to Internet bandits who > >capitalize on typographical errors to lure people to their own World Wide > >Web sites, a federal judge in Virginia ruled that the domain name > >"wwwpainewebber.com" be stripped from the owner of a pornographic Web site. > > I think this case was wrongly cast by the journalist as focusing on the > careless typist rather than the dilution concerns of PaineWebber. > Nonetheless, the judge also ordered NSI to freeze any future registrations > of the WWW.PAINEWEBBER.COM name. Agreed completely. "Fat Fingering" my eye!! Pure nonsense to that... > Understandably, NSI is concerned about > this latter order, which might be used as a precedent to require NSI (and > perhaps other registrars) to police the marks of all trademark owners. We > definitely shouldn't go down that road. Well as of January 16th, the idea that a DN is just a "String of characters" died. Unfortunate, that. > > > >From later in the article: > > "They're just strings of letters," said spokeswoman Nancy Huddleston. "We > get 7,000 registrations every day, and approval is usually granted within > 24 hours. Over and over again, courts have found that we're not liable for > trademark issues." Well this will not fly anymore. It looks like the TM lobby finally got some things done. (See above comment) > > > NSI by its own acts brought itself into the sorry situation of policing > trademarks by instituting its first domain name dispute policy on July 28, > 1995. As someone wrote earlier, the chickens are returning home to roost. > > Links to descriptions, articles and litigation about 50 domain name > disputes are maintained at www.domainhandbook.com/dd.html > > >http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/business/feed/biztop924260285101.htm > > > > > >-- > >DOMAIN-POLICY administrivia should be sent to <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > >To unsubscribe send a message with only one line "SIGNOFF DOMAIN-POLICY" > >For more help regarding Listserv commands send the one line "HELP" > > Ellen Rony Co-author > The Domain Name Handbook http://www.domainhandbook.com > ======================== // ============================= > ISBN 0879305150 *=" ____ / +1 (415) 435-5010 > [EMAIL PROTECTED] \ ) Tiburon, CA > On the Internet, // \\ no one knows you're a dog. > > Regards, -- Jeffrey A. Williams CEO/DIR. Internet Network Eng/SR. Java/CORBA Development Eng. Information Network Eng. Group. INEG. INC. E-Mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] Contact Number: 972-447-1894 Address: 5 East Kirkwood Blvd. Grapevine Texas 75208
